To the surprise of no one in particular, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa debuted at the top of the box office charts with a whopping weekend take of $63.5 million, dashing the hopes of those who dared to dream talking animal movies might be on the way out. Role Models made a surprisingly big splash at number two, taking in $19.3 million. Few turned out to bid a fond farewell to Bernie Mac, as Soul Men garnered a meager $5.6 million.
A sequel to Madagascar is one thing, but did anyone ask for a sequel to Road to Perdition? The misbegotten Tom Hanks mob movie was based on a graphic novel by Max Allen Collins, who will adapt his own follow-up, Road to Purgatory, for the big screen. “Purgatory will follow the character of Michael Sullivan Jr. -- the son in Perdition -- as he returns home from WWII and vows to avenge the murder of his father. He is ultimately led to Frank Nitti, whom he is urged to kill on the orders of Al Capone,” Variety reports.
Che co-star Edgar Ramirez will play “the anti-James Bond,” Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, “a Venezuelan-born leftist revolutionary nicknamed Carlos and later Jackal who famously raided the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria, in 1975,” per The Hollywood Reporter. Olivier Assayas (Demonlover) will direct.
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